Singly-resonant sum frequency generation of visible light in a semiconductor disk laser

doi:10.1364/OE.17.006010

Singly-resonant sum frequency generation of visible light in a semiconductor disk laser

Martin T. Andersen, Peter J. Schlosser, Jennifer E. Hastie, Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg, Martin D. Dawson, and Christian Pedersen »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 8, pp. 6010-6017 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.006010

View Full Text Article

Enhanced HTML Acrobat PDF (1031 KB)

Journal Search
Article Lookup

Article Tools

Citations

Alert me when this article is cited
Export Citation/Save

Abstract
Article Info
References (13)
Cited By
Figures (7)
Metrics
Related Content

Abstract

In this paper a generic approach for visible light generation is presented. It is based on sum frequency generation between a semiconductor disk laser and a solid-state laser, where the frequency mixing is achieved within the cavity of the semiconductor disk laser using a single-pass of the solid-state laser light. This exploits the good beam quality and high intra-cavity power present in the semiconductor disk laser to achieve high conversion efficiency. Combining sum frequency mixing and semiconductor disk lasers in this manner allows in principle for generation of any wavelength within the visible spectrum, by appropriate choice of semiconductor material and single-pass laser wavelength.

OCIS Codes
(140.3480) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, diode-pumped
(140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers
(140.7300) Lasers and laser optics : Visible lasers
(190.0190) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics

ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: February 24, 2009
Revised Manuscript: March 25, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: March 25, 2009
Published: March 30, 2009

Citation
Martin T. Andersen, Peter J. Schlosser, Jennifer E. Hastie, Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg, Martin D. Dawson, and Christian Pedersen, "Singly-resonant sum frequency generation of visible light in a semiconductor disk laser," Opt. Express 17, 6010-6017 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-8-6010

Sort: Author | Year | Journal | Reset

References

K. Schneider, S. Schiller, and J. Mlynek, "1.1-W single-frequency 532-nm radiation by second-harmonic generation of a miniature Nd:YAG ring laser," Opt. Lett. 21, 1999-2001 (1996). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
T. A. Driscoll, H. J. Hoffman, R. E. Stone, and P. E. Perkins, "Efficient second-harmonic generation in KTP crystals," JOSA B, 3, 683-686 (1986) [CrossRef]
C. Schriever, S. Lochbrunner, P. Krok, and E. Riedle, "Tunable pulses from 300 to 970 nm with durations down to 14 fs based on a 2 MHz ytterbium-doped fiber system," Opt. Lett. 33, 192-194 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
J. H. Lundeman, O. B. Jensen, P. E. Andersen, S. Andersson-Engels, B. Sumpf, G. Erbert, and P. M. Petersen, "High power 404 nm source based on second harmonic generation in PPKTP of a tapered external feedback diode laser," Opt. Express 16, 2486-2493 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
J. Janousek, S. Johansson, P. Tidemand-Lichtenberg, S. Wang, J. L. Mortensen, P. Buchhave, and F. Laurell, "Efficient all solid-state continuous-wave yellow-orange light source," Opt. Express 13, 1188-1192 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. Johansson, S. Spiekermann, S. Wang, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, and K. Ekvall, "Generation of turquoise light by sum frequency mixing of a diode-pumped solid-state laser and a laser diode in periodically poled KTP," Opt. Express 12, 4935-4940 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. Johansson, S. Wang, V. Pasiskevicius, and F. Laurell, "Compact 492-nm light source based on sum-frequency mixing," Opt. Express 13, 2590-2595 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
E. Karamehmedovi?, C. Pedersen, M. T. Andersen, and P. Tidemand-Lichtenberg, "Efficient visible light generation by mixing of a solid-state laser and a tapered diode laser," Opt. Express 15, 12240-12245 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. Calvez, J. E. Hastie, M. Guina, O. Okhotnikov, and M. D. Dawson, "Semiconductor disk lasers for the generation of visible and ultraviolet radiation," Laser Photon. Rev. published on-line 13th January 2009. [CrossRef]
A. Härkönen, J. Rautiainen, T. Leinonen, Y. A. Morozov, L. Orsila, M. Guina, M. Pessa, and O. G. Okhotnikov, "Intracavity sum-frequency generation in dual-wavelength semiconductor disk laser," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 19, 1550-1552 (2007). [CrossRef]
J. Chilla, Paper PTuD3, in: Proceedings of the Conference on Photonic Applications Systems Technologies, San Jose, 2008.
J.-Y. Kim, S. Cho, J. Lee, G. B. Kim, S.-J. Lim, J. Yoo, K.-S. Kim, S.-M. Lee, J. Shim, T. Kim, and Y. Park, "A measurement of modal gain profile and its effect on the lasing performance in vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers," IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 18, 2496-2498 (2006). [CrossRef]
D. R. Preuss and J. L. Gole, "Three-stage birefringent filter tuning smoothly over the visible region: theoretical treatment and experimental design," Appl. Opt. 19, 702-710 (1980). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Cited By

Alert me when this paper is cited

OSA is able to provide readers links to articles that cite this paper by participating in CrossRef's Cited-By Linking service. CrossRef includes content from more than 3000 publishers and societies. In addition to listing OSA journal articles that cite this paper, citing articles from other participating publishers will also be listed.

Click here to see a list of articles that cite this paper